Unforeseen Tripping on Bin Qasim/Pipri 220 KV Transmission line

High levels of humidity cause tripping – initially 10 out of 64 Grid stations affected; complete restoration in the early hours of Sunday Karachi, July 12, 2015: K-Electric issued a detailed statement explaining the outage that occurred in Karachi on late Saturday. The outage in Karachi occurred due to a tripping on the Bin Qasim/Pipri […]

Break Down occurred DUE to Tripping at the KDA AUTO-TRANSFORMER

12 grid stations out of 64 affected; restored within a short span of time – KE Spokesperson Karachi, July 9, 2015: According to a recent press statement issued by K-Electric, the power entity details that at around 2AM, power supply from 12 out of 64 grid stations stalled due to tripping at the KDA Auto-transformer […]

Resignation of tabish gauhar, A baseless rumor

Tabish Gauhar still the Chairman of K-Electric – Company Secretary KE Karachi, June 29, 2015: K-Electric has strongly denied rumours circulating in the media regarding the resignation of their Chairman Board of Directors, Tabish Gauhar and said that Mr Gauhar is still serving as Chairman Board of Directors of the power utility. In a press […]

Technical faults led by excessive heat wave & surge in power demand

Karachi, June 29, 2015: K-Electric in its recent press statement requests its valued customers to avoid using unnecessary electricity equipment at this time of excessive heat wave in Karachi. KE said that with the rise of temperature, and increasing demand of electricity has exceeded to a record high of 3100 MW. He also added that […]

KE strongly rebuts allegations made by Minister on company performance

KARACHI, June 26: K-Electric objects to the statements made by some Ministers for incorrectly portraying KE’s performance. KE’s spokesman said the company has been utilizing its electricity generation at full capacity. 60% of the city exempted from load-shed whereas it is the only city where all 7 industrial zones have been kept exempted from load-shed […]

Technical Faults cannot be Deemed as Unannounced Load-Shed: K-Electric

Teams are working round-the-clock; Several faults rectified, Spokesperson KE Karachi, June 23, 2015: K-Electric has issued a press statement against the misperception regarding the power outages in the city. KE said that the reason behind power outages is the increased demand in power, due to the heat wave and over-loading on PMTs that face the […]